A record amount of Americans now speak a language other than English at home, with dramatic increases in the number of Arabic speakers.
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey, analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies, there are now 64.7million Americans over the age of five who speak at least one language other than English. That’s one in five Americans.
The amount is staggering compared to 1990, when less than half that amount (31.8million Americans) reported speaking a second language. And the number of foreign language speaking Americans today is triple the number back in 1980. More.
See: Daily Mail Online
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